The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-09-16


HARvEY KrxGox, : wealthy farmer
near Urbann, q. vas swindled out Of ~.
- By sharpers On The gold brick game,
Ths nea made COOL their escape, and
wrote Kenton from New YORK, telling him
tho trtck cost seven dollars and that they
were sorry Tor him.
0ovrRxoR HILL o. New York gave :
dinner on the evening Of the sab in honor
OF the Interstate Commerce Commission
ors, who wsre IN the city en- route from
Vermont % Washington.
The body a. Rev. John Aionzo Fisher
has Lseu found q Los Angeles. Cal. He
committed sucictis. Noroseness, caused
BY the failure Of some o. his plans, led 20
the deed. He was formerly professor IN
the Johns Hopkins University. His parents
are now in Prairie City, III.
THE county treasurer's oiIice - Green
willie, o.. was found open and robbed on
the morning q the 9Th, and $4,000 miss-
ing The treasurer d under arrest on
suspicion.
GkoRor McMAxus, alias Wright, only
six months oue Of the State prison, and
John Corrigan, alias King, who has
served two terms In the penitentiary,
were captured IN New York, on tho 9TH,
with : large quantity Of stolen dry
goodsL They nre noted burglars.
MANY noted Americans went 20
| Hawarden ON the 4th TO pay their re-
/ spects 70 Mr.. Gladstone and attend church,
where he read q1s lessons Of the day.
| After the service the path from the
| church door was lined ON both sides by
| American visitors, who greeted Mr.. Glad
| stone with much warmth.
FIRE At Rawson, O., on the 9Th. destroyed
! twenty two buildings.
| THE Rock Island railroad has inaugu-
rated an excursion rate war ct Kansas
City.
A HEAVY bank failure IL reported from
Warwick, England.
| WoRK has been resumed on the Lexing.
ton and Jefferson City branch Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad.
Nh. RANDALL has not 80 far taken part
| In the conference going on at Washing
1 ton on the tariff question.
MALONE and Riddleberger are ''putting
the law" TO one another in Virginia on
suits for money used in campaigning.
IT Il thought the number Of human lives
lost BY the Exeter (England) thcater hor-
ror will reach nearly two hundred
SECRETARY JOINS Of the London Peace
| Society, Il soon TO start for the United
| States on an of|lcial mission.
On. WETnoRE, the Waterloo Qll) ply
sician who fell on : Baltimore & Ohio
train on the way to Washington, 10 con-
| sidered In critical condition now.
/ BERRY HANCOCK and Jackson Silvey,
Jr, were put on trial in the United States
| District Court at Jefferson City, No, on
| the 9th. on an indictment charging them
with whipping and intimdiating Caleb r.
Atwood, Z homesteader Of Douglass Coun-
~, No.
NARrIx RYRRsox, the well-known Chi
/ cago millionaire, died suddenly In Bos-
ton on the eth, Of neuralgia Of the heart.
THE strike Of the Wisconsin Central
| switchmen IL now general along the line.
| Freight business i almost entirely sus-
| pended
RoBERr JANIS RUTH, aged fifty, fertilix
| e merchant Of New York City, commit
| ted suicide in Baltimore, Md, on the 9Th,
| by taking eight ounces Of laudanum.
THE proposed evictions on the Ponson-
| by estates in ireland have been abandoned.
| Under the provisions OF the Land act,
| twenty-six Of the Ponsonby tenants are
| protected and can not be evicted.
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| vickers foundry in Sheffield, England, on
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